Professor Christopher Shackle Punjabi and Urdu languages and literatures; regional languages of Pakistan and North-West India; Sufism and Islam in South Asia; Sikhism and its scriptures; comparative literature of the Islamic world.
Professor Lionel Caplan South Asia - Nepal and urban India. politics of land, religious fundamentalism, post-colonialism. Gurkhas, Anglo-Indians.
Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini Islam and feminism; Islamic family law, politics of gender and family law in Iran and Morocco